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This is one of the most famous scenes of sport, both ordinary and captivating: the sprinters at the start. As they prepare to shake their arms and release the muscles in their thighs, crouch down, throw their legs back and carefully put their feet in the starting block, look at their eyes on the track, lower their feet. head and hold their breath slow and stretch each fiber of his body – and how they finally burst, barely sounded the command: he repeats countless times every day all over the world, is imitated on the playgrounds, practiced in gyms, trained in competitions, always exactly the same. 19659002] Almost always. Because something was different when, on a Friday night in March, the fastest women in the world lined up to run the medals over 60 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, the shortest discipline in the world. ;Athletics. Eight women who qualified for the final were those who, like everyone else, did not come from countries with a long tradition of sprinting. The woman on track 5, who was here with the world champions and the Olympic champions – they did not come as their opponents from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Cote d'Ivoire, France, Netherlands . Mujinga Kambundji came from Switzerland, Köniz BE, and had just survived the worst crisis of his career.
The fact that a Swiss sprint is world class is as improbable as the chance that a monster is actually swimming in Loch Ness. Sprinting is one of the oldest disciplines and among all sports those with the lowest entry barriers. Whether in the Texas steppe, in the jungle behind Kingston, in the heights of Addis Ababa: For whom fast running is, there are no limits, even if you lead a life without privileges. The shoes do not even need sprinting. That's what makes this competition so popular, the level at the top so high. Ever since the modern creation of the Olympic Games, no Switzerland has had the slightest chance.
Then comes Kambundji, born in 1992, the second mother of four sisters, the Swiss mother, the Congolese father. From her, said the mother once, Mujinga has the chaotic body, flexible and reliable, the father's strong physique, athletic ability and ambition.
A few seconds of full speed, that's their thing: Mujinga Kambundji (r) and Simone Facey (l) compete in London in 2017. Photo: Getty Images
Mujinga Kambundji was another child, when all Köniz already knew who she was: the one who flees everyone. She ran and played, seeing one thing the same as the other, but as soon as a starting signal rang, she was more serious than any of her comrades. She did not run because of the race, but because she wanted to win, in fact she did not even move much, did not like to walk, did not like to walk, was a sprinter from end to end. A few seconds of full speed: It was his thing.
She had no glimpse of world championships or the Olympics when she was a beginner, and she did not know what she was doing for so many people around the world. was also important. She ran easily, faster and faster, ran the 100 meters as fast as no other girl in Köniz, threw the lessons of the recorder, ran the 100 meters faster than she did. no other teenager in Bern, launched gymnastic training The woman in Switzerland
Greater than the success was only the interest that attracted her since then.
12.80 seconds in 2006. 12.17 seconds in 2007. 12 11.6 seconds in the year 2011. 11.53 seconds in the year 2011. 11.50 seconds in the year 2013.
Being the fastest woman in Switzerland – in the international comparison that has long meant so good does not like anything. The 11.33 seconds that Kambundji needed in Geneva on June 14, 2014, to break the country's 100-meter record held by Mireille Donders for thirteen years, was another Bernese – this time was not even enough for the top 100 Jahresweltbestenliste
But that was only the beginning. The same year, Kambundji participated in the home-based European Championships in Zurich. He played in a semifinal in 11.20 seconds in the final and finished fourth. Greater than success was only the interest that attracted them from there.
They celebrate after the final of the 100m in Holland, 2016: Dafney Schippers (m., Gold), Ivet Lalova-Collio (L., Silver) and Mujinga Kambundji (r., Bronze). Photo: Getty Images
When four days after the 100-meter race for the relay on 4 x 100 meters and took off in the sold-out Letzigrundstadion at the beginning of the rod, they dropped after finished their leg should have been handed over to the next runner – because the Swiss sports public closed them in the heart. In the comments columns, it does not seem to haunt as usual, when an athlete does not live up to expectations, instead you have showered Kambundji with comfort and affection: "You're the best!", "Head, it can happen to everyone!" The time is yet to come!
How she buried her face in horror and apologized so shyly and with remorse to the spectators for the misadventure – it was throbbing. And in fact, it had the almost absurd consequence that, a year later, she received the Bern Communication Award, which usually goes to teachers, city presidents and musicians. The reason, as it was said in the tribute: their crisis communication "friendly and genuine".
Can I do what I dream about?
The 11.20 seconds of Zurich were their breakthrough, but they also meant that progress could no longer be made in tenths, but only in hundredths of a second.
11.19. 11.17. 11.07. All in 2015, so it was over, but we would not go any further. Whether at the 2016 Olympic Games or at the 2017 World Championships, the semifinals were the final destination and Kambundji has asked the most painful questions for any athlete:
The autumn of 2017 came with him the end of the season 2016/17 and the beginning of the season 2017/18, but the question remained: the final places at the championships of Europe and the semi-finals at the championships of the world and the Olympic Games were the best thing possible?
It is not believed The coordination effort requires a career
Mujinga Kambundji is one of those people who has a head on everything that is possible. When she receives a new bed and technicians announce at half past four, but get up on the carpet fifteen minutes earlier, she still gets bored for days that she n & # 39; 39 did not have time to vacuum, "the floor was mega dirty" so, "I was so ashamed". She speaks German Bernese like many young Bernese women, both large and fast at a time, always on the move.
Sports is his job, but the training lasts until half of the day. You do not even believe in the coordination needed for a career if you are not employed by a team like a footballer, a professional cyclist or a Formula 1 driver, able to handle just about anything : flight reservations, medical appointments, maintenance of materials. An individual athlete organizes everything herself, it is a balance game with countless contacts, associations, associations, organizers, a constant consideration: what time?
You do not receive a regular salary, but are you looking for supporters? there is money from the association, maybe you have, like Kambundji, some sponsors. But having sponsors, it is having a number of days a year for photo shoots, autograph sessions, podiums. In addition, there are media dates. As an individual athlete, you can always be so good – without advertising, no sponsor has the slightest interest.
At the Citius Athletics on 100m: the winner Mujinga Kambundji (right) and Imani Lara Lansiquot (left), Bern 2018. Photo: Keystone
And behaving with all these extra charges C is like this: when it happens in the sport, Kambundji hears well with it, except for the small moments of stress like when delivering a new bed. But when she's stuck in the sport, all the rest is too much for her.
She felt the same or a little less well when she decided in fall 2017 to dismantle the system she had trusted for four years: Coaching cooperation. This caused a minor earthquake in the athletics scene, because the coach was Valerij Bauer, a master of his craft, in 2010 he had led one of his sprinters to the European title over 100 meters. He had also brought Kambundji from 11.50 to 11.07 seconds, but he had such specific ideas about what worked and what did not work, that Kambundji with his own training failed more often.
She wanted to lift less weight, She found that she had gained too much strength and had become cumbersome, and she wanted to run longer runs, because she was promising not only about 60 and 100 , but also about 200 meters something (the 60 meters run in winter in the hall, the 100 meters in summer outdoors). Neither one nor the other corresponded to Bauer's driving philosophy
Back to Origins
The idea of separating from Bauer had matured for several weeks, but what was to follow had Kambundji not yet thought. Someone in his entourage told him to try Henk Kraaijenhof, a Dutchman whose best time was a while back. In the 1990s, he took care of Merlene Ottey, one of the brightest sprinters in history. Kambundji traveled to Amsterdam, exchanged training ideas, started working – and soon realized that they were not even in the thickest terms, let alone how much Kambundji Kraaijenhof should pay.
Das C was the end of the year 2017. Kambundji knew that it was right to leave Bauer and not to deepen his cooperation with Kraaijenhof. But that did not help her now. The first races of the new season were imminent and she was alone. Those who met her at that time scarcely recognized her, she looked depressed and tired. If she laughed, it's because it's part of her nature and she's re-entered.
The question is: can we get help? And if so, by whom?
Whatever she decides, she knew that she was under surveillance. The athletics scene, who had taken note of their separation from Bauer in surprise; sponsors who were hoping for something in return for their money; the commentators of the chroniclers, whose affection also included an expectation – someone who lives from sport never belongs to him.
We all know the moment when we do not know anything anymore. The moment the path we chose turns out to be a stalemate, giving way to our once strong belief in growing insecurity. The question is: can we get help? And if so, who? Mujinga Kambundji sought advice from the person she thought she would never need her help again: Jacques Cordey
Cordey, a 56-year-old community employee who is responsible for school sports at his location of residence and organizes the annual sports show, is just about the opposite of the starting coach Bauer and Kraaijenhof. He calls himself a night coach, and that's really an exaggeration, because now Cordey is on the tartan trail twice a week, usually Tuesdays and Thursdays, when he trains the talents of the region in the racing technique.
It was the unpolished diamond that any coach aspires to: Mujinga Kambundji, 2018. Photo: Keystone
Like Kambundji, Cordey comes from Köniz BE, his house is at near the house of his parents. He himself was a sprinter, but he has never been so far as in the final of the Swiss leagues. Then, for a half-life, he worked as a teacher of mathematics, NMM and physical education and raised two children with his wife, and when the weather allowed, he took care of his favorite hobby and unique. He was a coach, because there are thousands in Switzerland, people like him have founded the local sports system, they invest a lot of time and are paid insufficiently or not at all with money. They do it because their hearts want it.
Cordey became Kambundji 's coach while he had almost nothing to do with athletics. That was in 2008, seven years before Mireille Donders ended her career, the woman whose national record Kambundji was to crack later. Cordey had been his coach until recently. When she stopped, he also withdrew, and the effort ceased for a long time to be reconcilable with work and family life.
One evening, while he was walking through the neighborhoods, he met Kambundji's mother, who told him that Mujingas' coach was seriously ill and could no longer look after himself. she. Cordey felt a sense of obligation, and most importantly, he was honored that he was asked if he could not take over. Mujinga Kambundji – she was the unpolished diamond that every coach desires.
It's a clichéd clique that the relationship of a coach with his best student is like that of a father for his daughter.
Five Years For a long time, Cordey should be at his side, at a time when all sorts of things can hurt the sport: school, friendships, rebellion. But he found a good balance, was generally considerate and rarely too demanding.
Cordey organized a tutoring for Kambundji because he felt that it was not the Gymityp (what he had told her when she had managed the ### Matura) and, if he thought it necessary, reminded him of the afternoon medical appointment or to update his entries in the anti-doping notification system (possibly to be that he did it once too often or at one point "You do not have to tell me everything ten times, just enough!").
You have never completely lost sight of even after Kambundji sat in his small office in the fall of 2013 for the annual briefing of the season and told him that she had to to go from the front. For a coach who has more time for her, and for a place with faster teammates and ideal training conditions: at Valerij Bauer in Mannheim
There are two versions of how this separation works: Kambundji says that Cordey was disappointed but over time he was caught and no longer offended by his decision. Cordey says that he has never done anything else in his work with her except to educate her to become self-employed and prepare for the next step. One thing is certain: a coach like Cordey, who does not take too much of his self esteem from the success of his athletes and does not take it too personally when an athlete leaves him – the search for such a coach is long [19659002] 
She is among the favorites at over 100 meters: Mujinga Kambundji, in May 2018. Photo: Keystone
This is one of the most stereotypes Clichés to the world that the relationship between a coach and his best student looks like a father to his daughter. In this case, the dynamics is obvious. Cordey wanted to train Kambundji – and at the same time knew that he should let her go one day. Kambundji knew that she owed everything to Cordey – and that, nevertheless, the day would come when he could not teach him anything.
Cordey never stopped pursuing Kambundji's career. The other athletes, all the stars – they could be stolen. But for them, he was moving the sky and hell, plugging into the Internet if needed, or taking the laptop on vacation, and he was worried about a problem. race, a technical inaccuracy or an unusual lethargy, he wrote him a WhatsApp message. He did not blame her that she often answered him days later, "Sorry, I write it now!", Furthermore the Emoji monkey with his hands in front of his eyes. He knew that was his way of communicating.
When she sent him a message before the end of 2017, just before Christmas, "Jacqi", she called him, "could you help me?" His wife said, "Aha, now that she's no longer a coach, you're good enough for her again." Cordey shook his head vigorously, "it's not like that," he said. In the region, he has the reputation of being a tiebreaker for years, helping when a coach or athlete does not know what to do. He barely denies support even though he suspects that it is only the last option. But with Kambundji, he assures his wife, that is the case, the contact has never been broken, "I am not blind".
The Mujinga that he knows is one of the best in the world [19659002] In addition, he realized quickly, she really needed help. At the beginning of the year 2018, she sent him a video, inviting her to train in South Africa, where she had gone to change her mind. "It's awful," Cordey mumbled as he watched the video, "it's not the Mujinga I know."
The Mujinga that he knows is one of the best starters in the world, but that one In the three months that followed his release from Kraaijenhof, she seemed to have lost some quality (or more early, as Cordey suspects)
"It's terrible," he murmured again. He knew the training plans that Kraaijenhof had written for her, as well as the one she had created to bring him closer to his boyfriend. Now he looked at the papers again quietly and shook his head, too much volume, bad procedures, "it does not work."
Cordey sat down at the computer and wrote new plans that gave strength and conditioning Adrian Rothenbühler, a researcher at the Federal Office of Sport, who had previously worked for Kambundji [19659007] Most of the time, she just sent her videos at night and told her what she felt
6 x 60 meters and frequency drills on Tuesday. Muscular training on Wednesday. Three sets of 3 x 3 0 meters with weight resistance and two or six minute breaks on Thursday. Two sets of 3 x 60 meters with nicks after 30 meters and breaks of three or six minutes on Friday. Strength and training jump on Saturday morning. Two sets of 3 x 50 meters with an efficiency of 95% and 2 x 120 meters with a capacity of 90% Saturday afternoon
Sometimes Cordey shoveled a few hours and watched as Kambundji trained, usually sending him videos at night and telling stories. how she felt. In addition to her difficult start, a second problem left her perplexed: she slowed down regularly by flying, about halfway through the race. It was only when he compared previous videos to current videos – he archived all the images on the computer – that he realized that the errors were related.
In the starting position, Kambundji did not return as she would have been but a hollow cross. And when she jumped out of the block, he came to the inevitable reaction: Instead of staying down to speed up optimally, the upper body was straightened, and so she was in constant correction. All the excitement is gone, especially in the hip, from the sprint all out.
Colleagues envied him the chance to work with such an athlete.
Cordey did a minor but important intervention. The fact that he worked, even though the weather was tight, is primarily due to the fact that Cordey and Kambundji have known each other for a long time – "we know what we do," say both – and secondly, as he says, they talk about "unlikely to have a rare ability to listen to a correction and implement it immediately.In this sense, both are a perfect duo, because Kambundji, in turn, attests to Cordey that he must take a sprint and recognize a hundred things to improve.
Cordey's theory involves five stages of progress, most athletes never forget the first two: [19659058] 1. You do something wrong – but you do not realize it
When he was really his coach and not just temporary help, his colleagues envied him the chance to work with such an athlete. As you can see, most of the time, he did not even attend the competitions and gave a Whatsapp message to give him his opinion. Of course, Kambundji did not consider the proposed changes before the race, she knows that she runs better when she gets into a sort of trance and, in retrospect, remembers nothing. But she's used to incorporating corrections in the warm-up between two races, "so I have something to think about and am less nervous," she says.
New training plans and technical corrections were important – but perhaps For the development of Cambundji in those few weeks at the world indoor championships, Cordey's pure presence was.
Seven weeks after the South African video, she started again in Magglingen and ran the race of her life
He was sometimes almost shocked to see how much she had stopped thinking, as he said it. If she told him that things were not going well, and he told her that she had to stand by her side, he taught her – so she said, "That's the The trainer's job was to make me quick. "Cordey's answer was silence, but for himself, he thought," Hey, it's not you! This is not just Bauer's job, it's also yours. "
She was released from this corset in the fall of 2017, and now that Cordey was watching her for a while, the Sprinter was able to flourish again." She also went alone to the competitions. , ran in preparation for the World Indoor Championships in Magglingen, Berlin, Karlsruhe and Paris, improved his best time of the season on 60 meters from 7.23 seconds to 7.14 and 7.13. , at the age of three, she recorded 7.11 seconds.
Seven weeks after the video of South Africa, she resumed in Magglingen and took part in the race of her life, 7.03 second, best time of the year., tiny eleven hundredths of a second above the world record of 1995. "7.03 !!! Swiss record and world leader !!! I'm really happy, "she wrote on Facebook, with a smiley smile, a smiley with heart-shaped eyes, a miscreant smiley and lots of other smileys
There were a lot of 39, articles in it.
Jahresweltbestzeit did not last long, one day later, an American ran 7.02 seconds. Kambundji was happy that she had already feared to go to the World Indoor Championships as a favorite, but she prefers that if she has nothing to lose.
When she clicked in the Internet preview window, she was relieved to see that Jamaican Elaine Thompson was the favorite, the 100-meter Olympic champion, the Dutch Dafne Schippers and the high-burglars Murielle Ahouré and Marie-Josée Ta Lou from Côte d'Ivoire. And only in some articles we also talked about it, so we said, ah, there is still a Swiss who ran 7,03. "It suited me," she says
The New Race Order
The race was won by Ahouré, Thompson was fourth, Schippers fifth. And Ta Lou and Kambundji? They ran almost simultaneously on the finish line, a difference was not visible to the naked eye, the target film had to decide. Five thousandths of a second made the difference, Ta Lou won the silver, bronze Kambundji, on Facebook, she only knew how to help with capital letters to express the incredible.
The next day, again in Birmingham, she met Rana Reider, a starting coach like Bauer and Kraaijenhof, for a coffee. It had always been clear that working with Cordey would be short-lived, and in recent weeks, Kambundji's interest in Reider had become more concrete.
Some call him a dictator, and one of his athletes said, "If he does it He runs very fast and we understand each other on the track, but he thinks I'm a bit of an asshole , so that's my job as a coach. "Reider is American, he has his base in the Netherlands, he runs a high level team, including Schippers, the best European sprinter of the day, who had just beaten Kambundji." Kambundji told Reider to join him, Reider asked his people if anyone had any objections Everyone was in agreement, including Schipper's direct competitor
The 7.03 seconds on 60 meters promise something.
Since then, Kambundji has been training at Reider's plans, he's in the Netherlands, she's in Bern, they're listening at night.She feels comfortable with him, he's Listening, she told him, and allows him to express himself.
Meanwhile, the outdoor season begins, next week Kambundji runs to the Athletissima de Lausanne, mid-August are the championships of Europe.It is one of the favorites on 100 meters, wants to run under 11 seconds, his best time is still 11.07 seconds of 2015, but the 7.03 seconds on 60 meters promise a lot.
Jacques Cordey will be watching shopping at home on TV, and most likely he will send her WhatsApp messages, and if she does not want it, she will answer him a few days later. But he does not care, he is always happy when she writes to him.
When she returned from the World Indoor Championships in March and told him about the meeting with Reider, he was somehow happy, at least that was his impression. : "It would make no sense for you to stay with me, but you know I'm always there when you need me."
(The Magazine)
Creation Date: 06/07/2018, 08:22
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